badana

Borrowed from Arabic بِطَانَة (biṭāna, “inside, lining, liner”). .

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈða.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈða.na]

badana f (plural badanes)

1. sheepskin

• pell

• moltonina

• “badana”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From badany + -a.

• IPA^(key): /baˈda.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ba‧da‧na

badana f (male equivalent badany)

1. female equivalent of badany (“researchee”) (a person under examination)

badana

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of badany

• badana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Arabic بِطَانَة (biṭāna, “inside, lining, liner”). Compare Spanish badana.

• Hyphenation: ba‧da‧na

badana f (plural badanas)

1. flap, dust jacket (of a book)

   Synonym: orelha

2. (informal) fin (of a fish, especially cod)

   Synonym: barbatana

3. (colloquial, derogatory) simpleton
4. (archaic) old, scrawny sheep

• “badana”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “badana”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

badana f (plural badanale)

1. alternative form of bidinea

From Old Spanish vatanna, from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (baṭána), from Arabic بِطَانَة (biṭāna, “inside, lining, liner”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈdana/ [baˈð̞a.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ba‧da‧na

badana f (plural badanas)

1. sheepskin

   Synonym: carnero

• Occitan: besana
  • French: basane

• “badana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بادانه (badana, “whitewash”).

badana (definite accusative badanayı, plural badanalar)

1. whitewash, limewash